Wed 2/15 @ 11:30PM
Lenore Anderson, co-founder of an organization called Alliance for Safety and Justice, is an expert on the intersection of the criminal justice system and victims’ rights.
Her book, In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety, looks at how the victims’ rights movement, while purporting to be about centering victims of crimes, in fact drives mass incarceration while failing the victims. As the founder of Californians for Safety and Justice, she has vote to re-direct prison dollars to mental health, drug treatment, education and victim services.
“The fact that decades of increased investments in criminal justice have been justified in service of protecting victims of crime, when most crime victims haven’t seen the justice system offer any real protection or help, is perhaps the most sinister aspect and irony of mass incarceration,” she writes in the introduction to her book. Anderson writes in the introduction.
Anderson will talk about her book and her advocacy at the City Club. She’ll be joined with Shakyra Diaz, ASJ’s Chief of Federal Advocacy, and Brenda Glass of Cuyahoga County’s Brenda Glass Trauma Center, which provides services to victims of violent crimes and their families, to look at policy solutions that protect public safety while reducing incarceration.
After the forum she’ll autograph her book, which will be available for sale at the event courtesy of Mac’s Backs.
You can also listen to the forum via livestream. If you have questions you can tweet @TheCityClub or text 330-541-5794.
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